Ophthalmic Record: A Monthly Review of the Progress of Ophthalmology, Volume 16

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Fox, 1907
 

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Page 401 - ... exercise. The candle which I looked at, seemed as it were encircled with a rainbow. Not long after the sight in the left part of the left eye (which I lost some years before the other) became quite obscured ; and prevented me from discerning any object on that side. The sight in my other eye has now been gradually and sensibly vanishing away for about three years; some months before it had entirely perished, though I stood motionless, everything which I looked at, seemed in motion to and fro.
Page 160 - ... according to the instructions furnished, and shall notify in writing the parent or guardian of every pupil who shall be found to have any defect of vision or...
Page 160 - The State Board of Health and the Superintendent of Education shall prepare or cause to be prepared suitable test cards, blanks, record books, and other needful appliances to be used in testing the sight and hearing of pupils in public schools, and necessary instructions for their use; and the Superintendent of Education shall furnish the same free of expense to every school in the state. The superintendent, principal, or teacher in every school during the...
Page 402 - I ought not to omit that while I had any sight left, as soon as I lay down on my bed and turned on either side, a flood of light used to gush from my closed eyelids. Then, as my sight became daily more impaired, the...
Page 402 - God, why may not any one acquiesce in the privation of his sight, when God has so amply furnished his mind and his conscience with eyes ? While He so tenderly provides for me, while He so graciously leads me by the hand and conducts me on the way, I will, since it is his pleasure, rather rejoice than repine at being blind. And, my dear Philaras, whatever may be the event, I wish you adieu with no less courage and composure than if I had the eyes of a lynx.
Page 105 - Nothing in this act shall be" construed to apply to physicians and surgeons authorized to practice under the laws of the state of...
Page 160 - ... shall, during the first month of each school year, test the sight, hearing and breathing of all pupils under his charge, such examination to be made by observation, without using drugs or Instruments, and without coming in contact with said child; and keep a record of such examinations according to the instructions furnished and make a written report of such examinations to the State Superintendent of Public Instruction as he may require.
Page 547 - An act to prevent inflammation of the eyes of the new-born babe, or socalled ophthalmia neonatorum. "Section 1. The Board of Health of the State of Illinois is hereby vested with power and authority to publish and distribute such information and instruction, to furnish such remedies and to make such rules, regulations and ordinances as it may deem expedient to prevent the development of inflammation of the eyes of the new-born babe, so-called 'ophthalmia neonatorum...
Page 103 - Etc.: Statistics. Method of protection for eyes of workmen, and others. Prohibition of dangerous explosives at celebrations. Toxic Amblyopia: From methyl alcohol — other toxic agents. How may the public be protected? Neglect on the Part of Patients Visiting Dispensaries: Patients suffering from conditions threatening vision absent themselves from clinics after being advised of the need of immediate treatment until too late. Method of reaching such. Blindness Due to Neglect of Slight Ophthalmic...
Page 402 - At present every species of illumination being, as it were, extinguished, there is diffused around me nothing but darkness, or darkness mingled and streaked with an ashy brown. Yet the darkness in which I am perpetually immersed, seems always...

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